Windows is good advice for the consultants who support it (was: Re: Good advice! (was: Re: [Ti] Windows compatable))

[Glenn L. Austin]

I've been talking about personal purchases, primarily.

Most IT departments are a lost cause.  Having been around them most  
of my career, they are about Job Security(tm), first and foremost.   
If another platform came along that had all of the software they  
needed but required more people to support, and they could justify it  
financially (ie. the hardware is SO much cheaper), they'd switch in a  
heartbeat.

I have yet to meet a traditional IT manager who wouldn't want more  
people in their department.  Right now most are soldiering on with  
fewer people than they need simply because Accounting managers have  
started to realize that IT is a black hole -- it sucks up all the  
money that is surrounding it for very little service.

Oh and Chris, properly written software doesn't break from version to  
version (except from 10.0 to 10.1, where 10.0 pretty much sucked).  I  
have quite a bit more software that is "10.1 or later" -- and doesn't  
break because of "library changes" (and there have been some) between  
versions of the OS.  For example, Apple made available to developers  
what libraries routines were defined in, but then told them to use  
the Carbon or Cocoa umbrella framework, just in case they moved  
things.  Some developers thought they were being clever and decided  
to use the specific libraries instead.  When Apple moved some APIs  
from one library to another, those who listened to Apple and wrote  
using Carbon or Cocoa continued to work.  Those who were "being  
clever" found their software broken and having angry customers.

On Jan 18, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> Glenn L. Austin said:
>
>> Most people really don't care what they use, as long as it does "X,
>> Y, and Z."
> My point, which seems to completely elude you, was that the fact that
> people are often ignorant about alternatives or alternative better  
> ways
> of doing things, doesn't mean they don't care what they use. Again,  
> it's
> not the same thing.
>
> Most business people, as far as I can tell from personal experience  
> (not
> meant to be a blanket statement or proving anything), care very much
> about that they use what they percieve "everyone else is using".  
> Perhaps,
> it need to do something, like "X", but they never thought they  
> could do
> "X" with great joy and in half the time, because they never  
> question what
> Windows gurus tell them to use. If they're lucky the Windows guru care
> about productivity, but I find that is seldom the case.
> Also, most business people, again as far as I can tell from personal
> experience, never thought of "Y" either, unless someone told them.
>
> Of course, all this depends as always on what your actual needs are  
> and
> how aware you're of them. Many people are not aware of what they  
> need at
> all. They just use computers, because they think that's how to to  
> "work".
> Somehow they manage to do some "work".
>
> Yes, I exaggerate a bit to get my point across, but not by much.
>
>
>
>
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